Serious Progess Re: smbios.ko probes successfully if i disable
acpi sysresource, fails if i do not
John Utz
john at utzweb.net
Thu Nov 2 04:18:35 UTC 2006
On Nov 1, 2006, at 7:51 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 18:47, john at utzweb.net wrote:
>>
>> So i actually do use pmap_mapdev to get a handle to the table, but
>> i dont
>> do that in smbios_attach, i do it in a function written to walk
>> the table.
>>
>> but, as i alluded to previously, the original author used
>> bus_alloc_resource() in smbios_attach() are you saying that i
>> should use
>> pmap_mapdev() in smbios_attach *instead* of bus_alloc_resource()?
>
> Yes. Firmware tables are not resources (at least IMHO).
ok then.
so since pmap_mapdev() returns a void* what is the current blessed
type that should be used for pmap_ memory handles in smbios_softc?
i saw something char*-ish in digi_isa.c, but i saw few enuf examples
that it seems to be worth asking....
tnx!
johnu
> --
> John Baldwin
>
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